Facing opposition for the first time in his 32 years in office, Russell County District Attorney Kenneth Davis was handed another term to lead the office in a close primary election Tuesday that triggered a surprise in the district judge's race.

With all precincts counted but totals unofficial, Davis garnered 3,398 or 56.5 percent of the vote to 2,612 or 43.4 percent for Jamie Graham who worked under Davis for almost 11 years in the office.

Davis was emotional when he declared victory in front of a large crowd gathered at the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Phenix City. “It’s a joyous moment. It’s a difficult moment for me,” said Davis, who lost his wife, Emily, to brain cancer last year. “Somebody is not here that I would like to be here.”

Graham, who resigned from the office to run against his former boss, said he was happy with his race.

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“I ran a clean race,” he said. “I ran a hard race. … I ran against a guy with 32 years of experience. And the people of Russell County want him for more time. I’m not done. I’ll be back when it comes back time to run again.”

As for Davis, he said he ran again because he believed he was the best person to fill the job. Now that he’s been re-elected, he said he’ll continue to do what a district attorney should do: “Justice. Find the truth and do what’s right.”

One goal his office will have moving forward is finding new ways to deal with their case load.

“We have to adapt in my office to the limited resources we have and find ways to reduce the case load that we have,” he said. “We’ve got to use all of the resources we have at our disposal and find some new venues and some new modes of dealing with our caseload.”

The Russell County ballot by party has a list of candidates for president and then a list of electors to party conventions, which voters must follow ballot instructions to choose. Electors will not be listed here.

Voters may choose “uncommitted” from the list of presidential candidates, committing no delegates to anyone in the running.

Here are listings for each party’s ballot:

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

For president:

Hillary Clinton

Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente

Martin J. O’Malley

Bernie Sanders

Uncommitted

For U.S. Senate:

Ron Crumpton

Charles Nana

For District Attorney:

Kenneth “Kenny” Davis

Jamie Graham

For District Court Judge, Place 1:

Zack Collins

Buster Landreau

For District Court Judge, Place 2:

Walter Lee Gray III

April Logan Russell

For Russell County Commission, District 5:

Cattie Epps

Jeff Faircloth

Charles E. Hollowell

For Russell County Commission, District 7:

Larry Screws

J.D. Upshaw

Proposed Statewide Amendment, No. 1:

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to authorize the legislature to provide a retirement program for district attorneys and circuit clerks of the state who are first elected or appointed on or after November 8, 2016.

SPECIAL ELECTION

Do you favor the local law authorizing the levy of fifty dollars ($50) per year on each residence and one hundred dollars ($100) on each commercial business outside the city limits of Phenix City, which shall be used to fund volunteer fire protection outside the City of Phenix City in Russell County?

REPUBLICAN PARTY

For president:

Jeb Bush

Ben Carson

Chris Christie

Ted Cruz

Carly Fiorina

Lindsey Graham

Mick Huckabee

John R. Kasich

Rand Paul

Marco Rubio

Rick Santorum

Donald J. Trump

Uncommitted

For U.S. Senate:

Marcus Bowman

John Martin

Jonathan McConnell

Shadrack McGill

Richard C. Shelby

For U.S. House, 3rd Congressional District:

Larry DiChiara

Mike Rogers

For Associate Justice, Place No. 3, State Supreme Court:

Donald J. Beaulieu

Tom Parker

For President, Public Service Commission:

Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh

Terry Dunn

Proposed Statewide Amendment, No. 1:

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to authorize the legislature to provide a retirement program for district attorneys and circuit clerks of the state who are first elected or appointed on or after November 8, 2016.

SPECIAL ELECTION

Do you favor the local law authorizing the levy of fifty dollars ($50) per year on each residence and one hundred dollars ($100) on each commercial business outside the city limits of Phenix City, which shall be used to fund volunteer fire protection outside the City of Phenix City in Russell County?